Water Network Engineer

Your Impact:
At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed - today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.
People are Jacobs' greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent. In addition to the benefits you'd expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.
Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We're happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.
About the opportunity

Water Network Engineer
Jacobs has secured multiple multi-year Contracts and Projects with leading Clients in the UK, Ireland and across the Globe. Water is looking for skilled people to deliver on these fantastic opportunities in the Water Industry and beyond. We are seeking Clean Water Network Modellers in Edinburgh who are looking to grow their careers in exciting new ways.
Successful candidates will join a team of nearly 600 Water Professionals, working on a range of high-profile projects and become a part of a World Leading Company with excellent career prospects. You will be delivering project tasks, designs and working with Clients on water infrastructure at various stages in the project life cycle, working within our multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects within agreed timeframes and budget.
Here's What You'll Need
Successful candidates will:

• Have worked in multi-disciplinary teams to help deliver projects within agreed timeframes and budgets and to exceed our clients' expectations.
• Have delivered on a wide variety of projects such as water trading, large capital design, water quality and network optimisation.
• Be a motivated and innovative person who embraces new technologies. We will support you to convert your innovative ideas into practical solutions that tackle the challenges facing the Water Industry.
• Mentor junior engineers and assist the growth of our Water team. We will support and encourage you to raise our and your own profile across the wider Industry
• Maintain strong and collaborative working relationships and interactions with our Clients.
• Promote a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous improvement by providing technical guidance and support to colleagues.
• Passion for taking on new challenges with Clients in the Water Industry.

Here's What You'll Need:

• Strong knowledge and experience in the operation of clean Water Networks and modelling, and able to work autonomously in the delivery of different types of projects. Knowledge and experience in leakage management will be a plus.
• You solve problems by developing and adopting innovative approaches and using both data analysis and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills. Able to communicate project findings skilfully and clearly with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent presentation and written skills. Able to prepare technical reports and deliverables, ensuring quality of modelling outputs and compliance with standards, specifications and governance requirements.
• Be working toward obtaining Chartered status with a professional institution.

Our Culture
Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.
We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we're more connected, and if we are diverse, we're more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you're pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity - ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women's - find out more about our employee networks here.
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